I dunno man, if you ask me, German grindcore is the best grindcore. Blood, Nyctophobic, Depression, Dead, and now this darkly melodic gem of savagery. If you could post the whole album in Audiophile, I'd appreciate it.

True, now that I think of it, Germans do make good grind. The USA and Britain are also good places to turn, as well as select bands from across the globe.

me too man i searched through a bunch of Dark Ambient, but most is lame gothy techno. I dont know if anything is going to come close to EDS. I had to buy that album on LP as soon as i heard it!

feck, im craving more of this sound. I cant describe how good EDS is, not even the DLA review does it justice. Everytime I listen to it I just discover more and more how fucking mind exploding/devastating/fucking it is. Pure spiritual envolopement and tribal worship, mystic dark infinity! I have got about the same results as you searching through dark industrial and the like. NEED MOAR.

Dark Ages, Das Ich's "Anti Christ", Diagnose: Lebensgefahr's "Transformalin", Endura, Lustmord's "Juggernaut", Paysage D'Hiver's "Steineiche" demo, Raison d'etre, Maeror Tri's "Myein", Screaming Corpses, and VNV Nation's "Empires" may be your best options for something that sounds like "dark ambient" or "dark industrial". You may want to check out early Swans, too. Diagnose: Lebensgefahr's "Transformalin" isn't very good because it has a lot of filler, but definitely has two of the most powerful tracks I have ever heard ("Transformalin" and "Last Breath of Tellus"). Definitely check out Endura, as it likely is what your looking for, in my opinion.

All of this music I have selected is fairly diverse but you really shouldn't want to hear something exactly like EDS. Screaming Corpses is likely the most similar due to its very minimalistic nature. Have a happy aural adventure.

nah i dont want to hear something EXACTLY like EDS, i just want another dark ambient dimension to step into like that of Electric Doom Synthesis! I dont mind Dark Ages, their stuff is pretty cool, but its not deep, its creepy and thats about it. I'll try those others that you have mentioned though, Thanks!

nah i dont want to hear something EXACTLY like EDS, i just want another dark ambient dimension to step into like that of Electric Doom Synthesis! I dont mind Dark Ages, their stuff is pretty cool, but its not deep, its creepy and thats about it. I'll try those others that you have mentioned though, Thanks!

Some recommendations. Make sure you have excellent bottom range in your hifi setup, because this genre relies heavily on deep bass and subsonics for inducing real body trauma.

nah i dont want to hear something EXACTLY like EDS, i just want another dark ambient dimension to step into like that of Electric Doom Synthesis! I dont mind Dark Ages, their stuff is pretty cool, but its not deep, its creepy and thats about it. I'll try those others that you have mentioned though, Thanks!

Ignore everyone else's recommendations, because they're wrong

Maeror Tri - Meditamentum I and II, The Beauty of Sadness. These range from soft, distant, slowly evolving or simply repeating guitar lines over drones to tribal drumming to a soundtrack of the explosions inside the Earth. Meditamentum II is probably the best album to start to get a good idea of their sound. Oh, it's also really good. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PVdFf0nOzw&feature=related , most of their "darker" songs aren't on youtube, so you're probably just better off downloading one of the albums if that's what you want to hear.)

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II - This album isn't dark ambient, nor is it alike EDS in sound or structure, but some of the darker songs do create a similar sense of foreboding, and all the songs are at least as hypnotizing as the songs in EDS. It's kind of a stretch, but you might like it. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uq4VsIEP8&feature=related )

VNV Nation - Praise the Fallen - Once again, this is rather unlike EDS and it certainly isn't dark ambient. I do kindave identify EDS with it because they are both electronic music that is dark and aggressive. Songs on it stride the line between synth-pop, techno, industrial, and neo-classical. Any metalhead that gets into electronic music should be able to find value in this if they get past the "inferior" pop-ish elements. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxLY2x7bEvs )

That should be quite a bit to chew off, you know, rather than a list of 10 obscure bands with 2 hour long albums you've never heard of with no explanations whatsoever.

So, is the last Rise album any good? I really dug Shadow of Ruins, so I'm hoping they kept a good thing going, but the whole "Guest appearances by Angela Gossow and Dave Suzuki" is tripping my AIDS sensor.

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nah i dont want to hear something EXACTLY like EDS, i just want another dark ambient dimension to step into like that of Electric Doom Synthesis! I dont mind Dark Ages, their stuff is pretty cool, but its not deep, its creepy and thats about it. I'll try those others that you have mentioned though, Thanks!

The first album has an aesthetic and feeling very similar to EDS. Amateurish, but effective. Listening to it you feel like a lone rogue going through the deserted streets of a Judge Dredd-type future city at the time of curfew.

Haven't listened to the most recent release, but I guess it's along the same lines

I myself have listened through it once so far and enjoyed it thoroughly. Not sure if I'll continue to enjoy it for a long time, but based on first impressions I'd say it's at least worth checking out. You can listen to a preview track yourself on that review and then decide if you want to hear more.

I myself have listened through it once so far and enjoyed it thoroughly. Not sure if I'll continue to enjoy it for a long time, but based on first impressions I'd say it's at least worth checking out. You can listen to a preview track yourself on that review and then decide if you want to hear more.

THIS is the kind of Death Metal that I like. Are there any modern bands with a similar sound (which are actually good)?